Traditional Chinese Folk Song
Arr. by me
Live recording of Gan Eng Seng Primary School choir, on Singapore Youth Festival Choral Presentation 2014, conducted by Phua Hwee Khee, accompanied by Freda Lim.
(IMHO, an example of a "cookie-cutter" choral arrangement; rushed out in 2 days, after lots of deliberation... and procrastination.)

Mian Yi 棉衣

"Weather The Storm, Forward We March"

Lover's Tears 情人的眼泪

Flaming June

Lush Nature

Music composed and conducted by Joel Nah. Recorded at the Ann Kreis Scoring Stage, Berklee College of Music, Valencia Campus, 14 October 2014. 

Flute: Alvaro Octavio
Oboe: Domenec Hurtado
Clarinet: Javier Ros
Bassoon: Tania Garcia

Based on "Las Lineas de la Mano", by Julio Cortázar

"From a letter thrown on the table a line comes which runs across the pine plank and descends by one of the legs. Just watch, and you see that the line continues across the parquet floor, climbs the wall and enters a reproduction of a Boucher painting, sketches the shoulder of a woman reclining on a divan, and finally gets out of the room via the roof and climbs down the chain of lightning rods to the street. Here it is difficult to follow it because of the transit system, but by close attention you can catch it climbing the wheel of a bus parked at the corner, which carries it as far as the docks. It gets off there down the seam on the shiny nylon stocking of the blondest passenger, enters the hostile territory of the customs sheds, leaps and squirms and zigzags its way to the largest dock, and there (but it's difficult to see, only the rats follow it to clamber aboard) it climbs onto the ship with the engines rumbling, crosses the planks of the first-class deck, clears the major hatch with difficulty, and in a cabin where an unhappy man is drinking cognac, and hears the parting whistle, it climbs the trouser seam, across the knitted vest, slips back to the elbow, and with a final push finds shelter in the palm of the right hand, which is just beginning to close around the butt of a revolver." (Translation: Google Translate)

The Lines of the Hand - a 2-minute sketch

Music composed and conducted by Joel Nah. Recorded at the Ann Kreis Scoring Stage, Berklee College of Music, Valencia Campus, on 21 November 2014. 

Trumpet 1: Rubén Marqués
Trumpet 2: Josep Olcina
French Horn: Jesús Sánchez
Trombone: David Pérez Zarzo
Tuba: Eduardo Nogueroles

Based on "Tema Para un Tapiz Cortaz" by Julio Cortázar. 

"The general has only eighty men, and the enemy five thousand. In his tent the general curses and weeps. Then he writes an inspired proclamation and homing pigeons shower copies over the enemy camp. Two hundred foot desert to the general. There follows a skirmish which the general wins easily, and two regiments come over to his side. Three days later, the enemy has only eighty men and the general five thousand. Then the general writes another proclamation and seventy-nine men join up with him. Only one enemy is left, surrounded by the army of the general, who waits in silence. The night passes and the enemy has not come over to his side. The general curses and weeps in his tent. At dawn the enemy slowly unsheathes his sword and advances on the general's tent. He goes in and looks at him. The army of the general disbands. The sun rises." (Translation by Google Translate)

"Theme for a Tapestry" - a 2-minute sketch

Music composed and conducted by Joel Nah. Recorded in the Auditori, Palau de les Artes Reina Sofia, Valencia, Spain on 2 February 2015. 

Violin 1: Evgeny Moryatov
Violin 2: Antonio Garcia
Viola: Javier Cárdenas
Cello: Ana Berenguer
Harp: Cristina Montes Mateo

Based on "El Cerdito"(The Piggy Bank) by Juan Carlos Onetti.

"Mortal Infantile / 'Por Si Las Dudas'" - a 2-minute sketch

Music composed and produced by Joel Nah. Recorded in Budapest, Hungary by the Budapest Art Orchestra, conducted by Peter Pejtsik, on 15 March 2015.

2m1: "The Kitchen Cue"

Samples of scores I wrote for my Music Composition for Film and TV course

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